zeriba

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
 * 2) * 1895,, Africa, Volume I, North Africa, (Stanford’s Compendium of Geography and Travel), London: Edward Stanford, Chapter 5, p. 245, footnote 1,
 * In Arabic zeriba means any kind of rough and ready fenced enclosure; hence the expression “zeriba country” applied by some geographers to the northern slope of the Nile-Congo divide, where the Arab traders and slave-hunters had founded numerous palisaded stations long before the establishment of the Egyptian administration in that region.
 * 1)  An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
 * 2)  A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
 * 3)  Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
 * 1)  A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
 * 2)  Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
 * 1)  Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
 * 1)  Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.

Verb

 * 1) To erect or take refuge within a zeriba.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  (African type of fence)